The Cory Truax Show

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THE MASTER'S WINNER

The winner of the Master's gave some compellingly strong and theologically astute responses to questions after his win -- regarding identity and even the cross of Christ. I have a theory why the great athletes of the next generation will be majority Christian.

2024's ABORTION POLITICS

I grew up with one "pro-choice" party, advocating for "safe, legal, and rare" abortion access and one pro-life party. Recently, after Donald Trump said the matter should be left to the States, that leaves us with one pro-ABORTION party and a pro-choice party. There aren't any true pro-life national figures now.

BILL MAHER TELLS ABORTION TRUTH

The audio is ghastly, but at least he's honest and owns the horrific position.

INTERESTING QUESTION FROM THE RIGHT

I'll try to answer this Twitter question. What's better:

-4 years of Biden followed by 8 of Desantis; OR

-4 years of Trump followed by 8 of Gavin Newsome?

A LOT MORE

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MITIGATING SMARTPHONE DAMAGE FOR KIDS

We now have evidence that religious families are doing better at diminishing the deleterious effects of smartphone usage in kids. I'll share the details.

ENCOURAGING GEN-Z NEWS

Generation Z is pursuing trade schools in numbers we haven't seen in decades. This is good news for crucial industries that need youth infusion and for the income stability of the next generation.

BEWARE THESE PREACHERS

Marc Driscoll and Tullian Tchividian are both gifted communicators. They also both disqualified themselves from ministry. Both are also making a comeback in popularity. I have a warning.

MUCH MORE

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BIDEN AND TRUMP FAIL AT EASTER

Before Easter, the former president decided to sell a patriotic Bible. On Easter, the current president released a proclamation recognizing a pagan holiday for "transgender visibility."

Both of these are bad, and the Christian can say both are both. I'll give details on each and my response to varying reactions to both.

My major conclusion is that in our country:

• The blue team is antagonistic to Christianity and wants hostility to it.
• The red team likes to co-opt Christianity and makes us passive to the real faith.

ATHEIST RICHARD DAWKINS SAYS HE'S A "CULTURAL CHRISTIAN."

In truly astounding audio, the most prominent atheist in the world admits we need Christianity. He recognizes both leftist Wokeism and Islam (the growing religions) are ugly and disastrous. But he wants the form without the substance -- a Christless Christianity. That might PROLONG our demise in the West, but it won't fix our problem.

MUCH MORE, INCLUDING AN INTERACTION I HAD AT QT THAT IS INSTRUCTIVE

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SOUTH CAROLINA CLOSE TO SCHOOL CHOICE

A bill passed that House that makes true school choice more likely in South Carolina than anytime in my lifetime. Let me encourage you: find your Senator at scstatehouse.gov and politely encourage them to pass House Bill 5164 to empower parents to choose their child's education.

CANDACE OWNS, BEN SHAPIRO AND "CHRIST IS KING"

In the dramatic breakup between Candace Owens and the Daily Wire, somehow her "Christ is King" declaration became a rallying cry for many on the political Right. I want to offer a word of caution: not everyone who declares "Christ is King" is a brother or sister. Some are USING that phrase for other reasons.

Listen, I get the enemy. I know the secular Left is a threat to my family and yours, our culture, and our future. That might require with being temporary ALLIES with some folks, but don't mistake them for brothers and find your unequally yoked.

GET YOUR KIDS OFF SMART PHONES

Let me tell what I've learned thus fair from Jonathan Haidt's new book, "Anxious Generation." In short, smartphones and the apps thereon are hurting our kids. We need to preserve them.

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JOHN MACARTHUR ON CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM

John MacArthur got into the Christian Nationalism discussion recently. I'll play you the audio and respond, I hope, with some grace and humility.

SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE

Perry Noble is now cursing in sermons and benching 400 pounds on stage to "make a point." How do we help people drawn in by these personalities to come out of these places?

WHY DO WE GO TO CHURCH?

A recent Instagram posed that question recently. It was a GOOD question, but it SHOULD be a secondary question. I'll give details.

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WHAT DO KIDS LICKING TOES, A LOCAL FIGHTING LEAGUE, AND ONLY FANS HAVE IN COMMON?

I recently noticed that an event is coming to my area where local, random men, can sign up to fight other random men, so other people can pay money to watch them punch each other. I then heard a story about children licking peanut butter off of toes at a school in Oklahoma and another story about OnlyFans.

All of these fans demonstrate our low anthropology and how lowly we think about what it means to be a human. The entire discourse sent me back to CS Lewis's "Abolition of Man." It has some lessons we need to learn quickly.

LOS ANGELES SCHOOL INDOCTRINATION VIDEO

A video has surfaced that is used in training L.A. teachers. In that video, they do a skit that informs a man he must use the "preferred pronouns" of a co-worker. They then tell him he "can believe whatever he wants," but he must "keep it out of the workplace.

Wait. Believing men and women are distinct has been every human's take for over 6,000 years of human history. About ten years ago, Woke white people changed their mind on fundamental biology. If anyone is bringing a cultic "belief" to work and forcing it on anyone else, it's the "transgendered" person.

EXPERTS ARE FINE, BUT SOMETIMES COMMON SENSE IS ALL YOU NEED

A recent conversation about what books should be in school libraries had me witness a grown woman claiming she didn't know if lewd, pornographic images should be available to elementary schoolers and that only "sex educators" would know.

We have over-romanticized the role of "experts." Sometimes, you just need some obvious, common sense.

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OUR ROTTEN MASCULINE/FEMININE DYNAMIC

Over a period of three days last week, I had several experiences that made me evaluate how rotten the dynamic is now between men and women. It made me wonder what broke it. I've been watching "Masters of the Air" on AppleTV and noticed how healthy the masculine/feminine dynamic was back then. I think the distinction was that era told men their duty was to sacrifice themselves for their families, communities, and culture. A generation of women saw men rising to their task, respected those men, and those men thrived. We have something to learn there.

SOCIAL MEDIA GOES TO COURT

Meta (Facebook & Instagram), TikTok, and Alphabet (YouTube & Google) are suing Texas over a law that says those social media companies cannot show favoritism to some content while artificially constraining other content. This is a confusing set of arguments with no clear left/right, red/blue divide. I'll try to walk you through it.

OH HOW THINGS CHANGE

The 1995 State of the Union address from Bill Clinton recently resurfaced. In that address, he celebrates the bipartisan effort at more border security, faster deportations, restrictions on giving welfare benefits to illegal migrants, and more hardcore efforts against illegal immigration. The room erupted into applause. Only THIRTY YEARS ago, that was a bipartisan issue. Consider how much we've changed.

That experience led me back to other audio when Barack Obama chided Mitt Romney for Romney thinking RUSSIA was a chief enemy, everyone on the Left saying marriage is for one man and one woman, and even Biden saying into 1987 that all rights come from God.

It's a stark realization of how much the world has changed in a short 35 years,

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THE MASCULINITY WE NEED

Nancy Pearcy is one of my favorite authors, and made a fantastic point of not contrasting manhood to womanhood. We need to first contrast it to BOYHOOD. We must hold to the male/female distinctions, but first, let's have men who want to leave childhood behind.

EXAMPLE OF BAD MANHOOD

An absolute lout went off at a New Hampshire school board meeting. I'll play the audio as an example of "what not to do."

YOUR ENEMY'S ENEMIE AREN'T YOUR FRIENDS

I'll use two examples, primarily Tucker Carlson' visit to Russia, to be sure we know that our the Machivellian alliances we make are often terrible.

TAX FACT

Almost always, when we lower tax rates, our revenue GOES UP. That is very true of the 2017 tax cut. I know that's not intuitive, but I'll explain it and why it's important we get that right.

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8 MINUTES OF FOOTBALL TALK

I enjoy this Chiefs dynasty. I have mostly disliked other dynasties. I'll use 8 minutes to indulge in sports talk.

SUPER BOWL CONSPIRACIES

The "NFL is rigged" people have zero arguments. I'll break down and refute these conspiracy theories.

CONSPIRACY THINKINGS MUST STOP

I'll itemize why conspiracy thinking is so damaging to culture and humanity. Also in this segment, I do get the damage of secular leftism. It's godless paganism with terrible ideas, leading to ruin the West. While that is totally true, on the Right, we do have a growing conspiracy problem that needs response.

TRAVIS KELCE NEEDS TO GROW UP.

The Tight End's screaming at his coach was embarrassing and the opposite of the masculinity we need modeled. Adults, regulate your emotions.

HE GETS US AD

One of the advertisements was incomplete. One improperly applied Jesus washing his DISCIPLES feet. It also coddled some sins. On the brightside, it creates conversations where theologically sound people can speak truth to error.

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TAYLOR SWIFT CONSPIRACY

Let me dispel the notion that malign actors are executing a Psy-Op, using the NFL and Taylor Swift to push the Left. We're plenty enough a pagan people for Leftism to thrive without a conspiracy.

MATT WALSH ON ART VANDALS

The Catholic commentator says we should execute the vandals of the Mona Lisa and other destroyers of famous art works. Let's use Biblical wisdom to correct his thinking and surmise the proper punishment.

ARE PASTORS BLOGGING TOO MUCH?

We'll consider the wisdom of an older pastor who thinks pastors are online too much.

ARE ALL SINS EQUAL? No.

I'll provide arguments and audio to demonstrate that the idea that we all just "sin differently" is unbiblical. Some sins are actually worse than others.

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TRUMP CONSOLIDATION

That happened fast. With Governor Desantis gone, the 2024 race is set: two elderly, unpopular men. I have several thoughts of analysis, including the fact that there's never been a bigger opportunity for a third party.

SCHOOL LUNCHES IN THE SUMMER

My State is debating a school lunch program for the summer. That led me to a couple thoughts regarding the arguments in favor of it. It seems these politicians are often telling me my BIBLE tells me this program is needed. So, I have to ask: does that make summer school lunches... Christian Nationalism?

CHRISTIANS ANS GAY WEDDINGS

A rock-solid Bible teacher recently created controversy with an answer about Christians and homosexual weddings. I want to respond to that.

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LET HISTORY INFORM YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT TODAY

I know life is unstable right now: inflation, mortgage rates, protests/riots, two wars, shifting morals, incompetent governance, and a contentious election in front of us.

One reason we stress about these things so much is that we think we're unique in human history. Give me 15 minutes to walk you through the US in 1968, and learn that we're not the first people to tread these grounds, and we'll make it through just like they did.

TWO MADDENING PIECES OF AUDIO

One is from an apostate "church" in Canada. The other is an AI-generated worship of a politician. I have points on both.

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LONELINESS AND POLITICS

New York Times Editorialist and author (one of my favorites) David Brooks has a new book out. One revelation is how people are using politics (instead of church) for morality, community, and feelings of making an impact. That's a substitution that will ruin us.

CAREFUL WHO GETS YOUR EARS

Some commentators tell you you're living under a tyrannical, treasonous regime. I tend to think we're living under godless, very mediocre people with bad ideas. The first option brings panic and fear. I think you should avoid those people.

MATH LEADS TO GOD

I want to play a clip from an atheist mathematician whose work is making him conclude there is more than the material universe.

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A woman on TikTok recently complained about being rejected by a matchmaker (the woman wants to find a husband). She was appalled that the matchmaker thought the woman needed to make some changes to be appealing to the men she wanted.

Change, compromise, and improvement have been shunned by our self-love culture. I have some thoughts to share.

TEXAS ABORTION CASE

There was a complicated abortion case out of Texas this week. I want to offer clarity on the ethics of it -- but with, hopefully, a lot more compassion in my tone than I'm otherwise hearing.

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SURROGACY AND THE CHRISTIAN RESPONSE

Two prominent men in the conservative movement recently celebrated babies they’re now going  to raise with their partners. Both men hired women to carry the child and paid other women for genetic material to have the child. Some conservatives welcomed this, and then other conservatives chided them. I’ll provide some clarity on how a Christian might think about this and why we should not celebrate it.

CHRISTIANS ARGUING ABOUT ARGUING

Two prominent Presbyterians are sparring online about the use of caustic tones, lewd words, and cursing in our discourse. I fall firmly on one side, and I'll make my case.

ROSARIA BUTTERFIELD'S NEW BOOK

Rosaria Butterfield's personal story has always been compelling. She has a new book out, battling what she calls the "5 Lies of our Anti Christian Age." Here are those lies:

1. Homosexuality is normal.

2. Being spiritual is kinder than being a Biblical Christian.

3. Feminism is good for the world and for the church.

4. Transgenderism is normal.

5. Modesty is outdated and serves male dominance.

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A CULTURE'S ART TELLS YOU WHAT IT'S LONGING FOR

HBO's Hard Knocks, HBO's Gilded Age, and this new Jennifer Lawrence movie, "No Hard Feelings" are betraying this secular age's desires. The law of God is written on every heart, and God designed us to want certain things, as we're made in his image.

This culture tries to deny God's design but their art betrays them. I'll go over how these pop culture features are telling us people long for:

-Men to lead and take care of their families

-Men to leave behind childishness

-A Culture of dignity, decorum, and standards

-For sex to be meaningful again

-That chastity would be desirable

I'm on the road and unable to record a new episode this week. In place of that, this is the latest installment of mine and Cody Fields Post-Mil project.

Make sure to check his content out and buy stuff for your guitars (if you're a guitarist) at westminstereffects.com

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NEW HOUSE SPEAKER REACTION

It's good to have believers in high spaces. However, while the Left's reaction was on-brand insane, I noticed people who call themselves "Christian Nationalists" also had an odd reaction. I want to talk about all of the implications.

NUMB LITTLE BUG

The younger set have made a weird/sad song really popular. We need to be ready to offer young people something better than the fragility and victim mentality that the world does.

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JOE ROGAN ASKS AN UNINTENTIONALLY PROFOUND QUESTION

Rogan recently complained that life and the human experience are intricate and complex, but we don't have a manual for how to live list best. Boy, do I have some good news for him. If he's looking for a book with life's answers, we've got a good one.

ANDY STANLEY FURTHER OFF THE RAILS

Andy Stanley's recent sermon included a portion that affirms homosexual couples in government marriages are welcomed as full members in his church. That's not something I'm going to yell about. It's sad, and I want to critique his arguments.

LESSON FROM T.S. ELIOT

I'm a huge fan of Eliot's writings. I was recently reintroduced to this quote from him: "Tend to your garden, or you'll eventually have to clear a forest." I want to explore the importance of doing the regular work of life to prevent later disasters.

SUPREME COURT PREVIEW

The Supreme Court starts hearings again this week for the new session. I'll give you a preview.

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LETTER TO MY CONGRESSMAN

My Congressman was just found out to be an adulterer. He should resign. I'll make my plea and tell you why it's important for him to leave Congress and pursue his marriage. We need to hold marriage high. Congressman Duncan can do that by resigning.

MY MESSAGE COLLEGE STUDENTS

I was asked to speak to college students about being a Christian conservative today. My message:

-Pursue your Roles and Responsibilities -- not your Rights and Dreams.

-Get what you can. Know what SHOULD be, but understand the system and get the wins you can.

-Live with the long view. Their great, great grandkids will see finished what they start, so just stay faithful.

RESTORATIVE JUSTICE THOUGHT

My wife's car was stolen last year. I thought about the better way for justice to have worked then.

Cody and I cover a lot, including:

-Small steps to get started on the path to truth and beauty

-Does Christian exile contradict the Post-Mil view?

-Do modern Christians have an analog to use in the Bible?

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RAUNCHY LAWMAKERS

I grew up being told that sexual sin and perversion were disqualifying for anyone looking for authority. Recently a Democrat candidate for State Senate in Virginia was exposed for having sex on a streaming site for money. The mayor of Burbank, CA was spanked with a paddle by a drag queen in California. Yes, these are disqualifying.

But where are we on calling for Lauren Boebert to resign? She's an adulteress, behaving like a raunchy teenager in public? Why is Govenor Kristi Noem, a married womanw ith children, facing no backlash for BRAZENLY -- and grossly -- committing adulterty and flaunting it with Corey Lewandewski?

Yes, I know we need "rescue from the Left." But are these my army? This is the force to defeat secularism? I have a lot to say about this on.

FOLLOW THE LEADER

Why did these figures emerge? It's because their movement's leader is like them. I have new audio to that end.

BORN THIS WAY?

From 2002 to 2012, I was told REPEATEDLY that I couldn't hold my position on marriage (marriage is between only one man and one woman) because LGBT people were hard-wired in their genetics for these attractions. I was called an anti-science bigot for not embracing these claims.

Did you know that now, 20 years later, the most Woke Left people are saying what I was saying in 2003? I'll provide audio from a WNYC show to prove it.

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DRUG PRICE FIXING'S DOWNSIDE

A recent policy announcement would cap and set a price ceiling for some popular drugs. Both the "government shouldn't do that," and the "yay for cheap medicines" reactions are simplistic and immature. I want give you some deeper level thinking on policies like these.

A PROFOUND PARADIGM FOR MEANING

One commentator recently posited that we're miserable because our age says to find meaning, look first INWARD, second OUTWARD, and then finally, if you must, UPWARD. Real meaning is found the exact opposite way. I'll give details.

CHALLENING ELECTION DENIALISM

It's irresponsible to cast distrust on an election system without really strong evidence. I have a challenge on using words like "rigged" in a very precise way.

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REFUTING “KINISM”

I came across an errant theology, that can lead to sinful ethnic prejudice. I want to talk about its origins and then Biblically refute it.

A GOVERNMENT LESSON

We know too little about what the Federal Government is and what its role is. It is an entity created by the States, so the States are supposed to be supreme over it. That paradigm has fallen. Even so, it's important that we know what is in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, so we know the specific job of the federal government.

RESPONSE TO A MEME

I keep seeing memes from the younger set bemoaning that life is just eating, sleeping, exercising, getting married, buying a house, and having kids. They find so meaning it, and it's making them miserable. We have an answer for this problem.

BIBLICAL LAW OF THE WEEK: EXODUS 21'S SLAVERY LAWS

The passages on slavery are hard if you are coming from America's history of racist, chattel slavery. I'll help clarify some of these laws.

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DEBATE PREVIEW

There's a debate Wednesday night that some people (wrongly) think is important. I'll give you a preview of what SHOULD happen and also what WILL happen instead.

SMARTPHONES AND MARRIAGE

There's a fairly large study indicating major correlation between screen time and marriage troubles. I'll break it down and give some encouragement on how to stop your screen addictions.

FIRST "BAPTIST" CLEMSON

This church ordained a woman into the pastorate, bragged about it on social media, and I have some thoughts on their very lazy arguments.

BIBLICAL LAW SERIES

Deuteronomy has some laws that are hard to process. I'll process one of them with you in this section.

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NYT AND RIGHT'S ECONOMICS

The New York Times did a GOOD job of itemizing the growing divide between Reagan rightists and Trump Republicans on economic policy. Along the way though, they just told some lies that I will correct.

TAKE CARE OF MAYA DOCUMENTARY

I have some short thoughts on a maddening documentary I saw and recommend.

THE GOSPEL COALITION AND CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM

The TGC made a category talking about "Christian Nationalism." I want to clarify.

INTERPRETING HARD BIBLE LAWS

Let's wrestle through what some people claim the Bible says about rape.

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NANCY MACE

Nancy Mace bragged/joked about her own fornication at a prayer breakfast. We have a few lessons to learn from this.

IMPEACHMENT

I suspect impeachment will happen to this president within 1 year. I also think that we've discounted the severity of impeachment so much that almost all the presidents in my lifetime to come will also be impeached (but not removed by the Senate).

PATRIARCHY AND BARBIE

I haven't seen the movie, so I can't comment on it. I can comment on the discourse around the patriarchy, though. I have some nuance to add to it.

DOUG WILSON AUDIO

There's a video from Canon Press's Doug Wilson that I want to work through.

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"Try That in a Small Town" vs. Andrew Tate's "Manliness

Jason Aldean's "Try That in Small Town" isn't a racist lynching song like you're being told, but it does tell us something about masculinity. Conversely, Andrew Tate presents himself as an authority on manliness. I'll play some audio from him demonstrating he isn't anyone to follow.

That also gives me the opportunity to talk about manhood's defining characteristic: responsibility.

Why is Ron Desantis Failing

The Florida Governor seemed to be the only figure who could stop the former president from being nominated, but the Desantis campaign is flailing. I'll explore why.